Synthesis and Manufacture

The knowledge, experience and skills of the staff in our school are available to help you solve your problem.

Dr Chris Coxon

Senior Lecturer

Expertise: Medicinal chemistry' drug design; custom peptide synthesis and modification; drug metabolism, metabolite identification and tracking; peptide drug authentication; fluorine chemistry; 19F NMR; drug fragment screening; protein folding, aggregation and interactions.

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Professor Michael Ingleson

Personal Chair of Inorganic Chemistry

Expertise: Main group catalysis; Friedel-Crafts chemistry; Lewis acids; organoboron chemistry; boron Materials.

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Professor Andrew L Lawrence

Professor of Organic Chemistry

Expertise: synthetic organic chemistry; natural product synthesis; asymmetric synthesis; synthetic methodology; chemoenzymatic synthesis; biocatalysis; bioactive molecules.

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Professor Ai-Lan Lee

Chair in Organic Chemistry

Expertise: Photocatalysis; light-mediated chemistry; flow chemistry; homogenous catalysis; radical chemistry; sustainable organic synthesis; gold catalysis; palladium catalysis.

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Dr Amanda Jarvis

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Expertise: Biocatalysis, Biotechnology, homogenous catalysis, bioinorganic chemistry, protein characterisation - CD, MS, UV-vis, genetic code expansion, non-canonical amino acid synthesis.

Dr Amanda Jarvis

Professor Colin R Pulham

Professor of High-Pressure Chemistry

Expertise: Energetic materials; phase-change materials; heat storage; high pressure; structural chemistry; polymorphism; co-crystallisation; bio-fuels; X-ray and neutron diffraction; thermal analysis; vibrational spectroscopy.

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Professor Stephen P Thomas

Professor of Sustainable Catalysis

Expertise: Catalysis; mechanism; main group; iron; sustainability; boron; aluminium; manganese; cross-coupling; C-H borylation; silanes; hydrosilylation; hydrogenation; synthesis; organometallics; methodology.

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